Guerrilla Job Search Teleseminar Recording (free download)

Guerrilla Job Search Teleseminar Recording (free download) I wanted to make this embeddable (sp?) so you could listen from the blog but it was too long (the file was too big).  It is a download, which is cool, because you can put it on your PC, iPod, etc. and listen whenever/wherever you want. Right click to download the Guerrilla Job Search Teleseminar by David Perry and Kevin Donlin. (or, if you left click you might be able to hear it from the browser depending on your browser) In the teleseminar David and Kevin shared strategy, tactics and examples for job seekers on how to be different desireable, and cut down the time in your job search. Being unemployed sucks.  Being unemployed for a long, long time really sucks.  Listen to the teleseminar their full program, at a JibberJobber discount, is at this link: Guerrilla Job Search JibberJobber discount. (previous posts about the Guerrilla Job Search can be found here and here) Guerrilla Job Search Teleseminar Recording (free download) I wanted to make this embeddable (sp?) so you could listen from the blog but it was too long (the file was too big).  It is a download, which is cool, because you can put it on your PC, iPod, etc. and listen whenever/wherever you want. Right click to download the Guerrilla Job Search Teleseminar by David Perry and Kevin Donlin. (or, if you left click you might be able to hear it from the browser depending on your browser) In the teleseminar David and Kevin shared strategy, tactics and examples for job seekers on how to be different desireable, and cut down the time in your job search. Being unemployed sucks.  Being unemployed for a long, long time really sucks.  Listen to the teleseminar their full program, at a JibberJobber discount, is at this link: Guerrilla Job Search JibberJobber discount. (previous posts about the Guerrilla Job Search can be found here and here) Guerrilla Job Search Teleseminar Recording (free download) I wanted to make this embeddable (sp?) so you could listen from the blog but it was too long (the file was too big).  It is a download, which is cool, because you can put it on your PC, iPod, etc. and listen whenever/wherever you want. Right click to download the Guerrilla Job Search Teleseminar by David Perry and Kevin Donlin. (or, if you left click you might be able to hear it from the browser depending on your browser) In the teleseminar David and Kevin shared strategy, tactics and examples for job seekers on how to be different desireable, and cut down the time in your job search. Being unemployed sucks.  Being unemployed for a long, long time really sucks.  Listen to the teleseminar their full program, at a JibberJobber discount, is at this link: Guerrilla Job Search JibberJobber discount. (previous posts about the Guerrilla Job Search can be found here and here)

Web Design Tips to Sell Books and Build Brands - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Web Design Tips to Sell Books and Build Brands - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Web design is usually approached from a subjective or an aesthetic, or I like blue! point of view; but if you really want your site to sell books, products, and services while building your brand, you have to know a bit about the psychology of your website visitors. Thats the message Susan Weinschenk delivers in Neuro Web Design: What makes them click? Susan is a Ph.D. psychologist with 30 years of experience applying what we know about people to the design of technology. Susans message is relevant to every author and brand-builder who wants a website that will convert first-time visitors into prospects, and prospects into lifelong clients and customers. To succeed, our websites have to appeal to our visitors unconscious reactions based on emotions and automatic triggers. As Susan wrote: We think that we are reasonable, rational people and that our decisions are made by careful thinking. But the reality is that the Web site we pick, what we decide to do while there, and whether we buy or not are decisions and actions that we make in a largely unconscious way. In Neuro Web Designs less than 140-pages, Susan convincingly describes why many of our decisions are based on emotion, and many are based on automatic triggers that we react to from something we see on the website. Susans message is simple: we have to design our websites to appeal to our visitors unconscious drives and needs, not our own subjective opinions! Neuro Web Design begins with a short description of your website visitors brain, then moves on to the 10 major implications of the way visitors will react to your website. Every website visitor has 3 brains! The starting point is to recognize that every website visitor not 1, but 3 brainsan old brain, a mid brain, and a new brain: Old brain. This is the part of your website visitors brain that developed first in the evolutionary history of animals. This part of the brain is concerned with survival. The old brain constantly on the look out for change, deciding what is safe and what isnt safe. Mid brain. This is where emotions and feelings are processed. This part of the brain plays a major role in impulse buying. New brain. This is the most recent structure, the part of the brain where language processing, speech, reading, thinking, and planning take place. In the remaining chapters of her book, Susan describes the ongoing battle between our visitors 3 brains, and how to design sites that will get them to click! Implications From her 30 years of research, including the latest brain wave studies, Susan describes 10 major principles. These include: Social validation. Your visitors want to belong, they look for evidence that others trust you and value your ideas. Third party client or reader reviews and testimonials satisfy the need for social validation. Reciprocity and concession. When you give something of value, like helpful and useful information, to a web visitor, theyre more likely to want to give you something back in return, like permission to contact them via e-mail. But, not asking for anything in return at all increases the recipients loyalty and drive to favorably respond. Scarcity. Demand increases when quantities are limited. Putting a time limit on offers, for example, can increase response. Think back to the last televised auction for your local public elevision or public radio. Notice the way the challenge grants are for limited amounts of time, and how bids for   quickie board items increase as remaining quantities get smaller. Too many choices. One of Susans most important principles is involves the paradox of choice: when you present your visitor with too many choices, youre actually reducing the likelihood theyll take any action at all! As she stated in a recent interview, its important that web marketers know the MDAthe Most Desired Actionthey want visitors to take on each page. The above four principles provide just a glimpse of the insights you can use to focus the design of your blogs and websites to best appeal to the various brains inside the heads of your website visitors. This is not a book about psychology; its a book about behavior. Dont confuse Neuro Web Design with the textbooks you had to study in college. Its just 140 pages long; most chapters contain fewer than a dozen pages. Neuro Web Design was read to appeal to web designers, web marketers, and business owners. Neuro Web Design is a book to be read, thought about, and applied to your website. Each of the 10 principles are backed-up with specific examples that will help you apply the ideas to evaluating your current site, or planning a new site. Additional lessons for personal branding branding success When you visit Susan Weinschenks website, youll see she obviously takes her own advice. Her sites URL, for example, is based on her easy to remember What makes them click statement, which is easy to spell and easy to remember. It also provides an umbrella presence flexible enough to accommodate future book titles. Best of all, her Twitter followers know her as the even-easier-to-remember @thebrainlady!. Takeaway questions First, have you analyzed your current website from a big picture perspective, that goes beyond your goals and preferences, and takes human factorslike visitors with 3 brains into account?   Are you open to reading out of field books that challenge your assumptions and behaviors? Second, do you enjoy reading book reviews like this, or do you prefer more action-based tutorials that describe specific ideas, resources, and tips that you can use to plan, write, promote, and profit from your brand building books? As I enter the second year of contributing to Dans Personal Branding blog, I welcome your comments and opintions, and questions, submitted as comments, below. Thanks, in advance! Author: Roger C. Parker shares ideas for planning, writing, promoting, profiting from brand building books in his daily writing tips blog. His latest book, #BOOK TITLE Tweet: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas for Compelling Article, Book, Event Titles, offers step-by-step ideas and examples plus easy-to-use tips.

35+ Best Jobs For 20 Year Olds (Part Time Full Time) - Algrim.co

35+ Best Jobs For 20 Year Olds (Part Time Full Time) - Algrim.co Are you a 20 year old? Looking for a job? Want some inspiration as it relates to which jobs might suit you. We’ve compiled the best list of jobs for 20-year-olds right here. The first thing you have to look at is whether or not you decided to graduate or go to school. As a 20-year-old, you may have had the ability to attend some university or maybe even graduated. If you graduated, you may want to start looking for jobs that apply to some of your schooling or extracurricular activities. Lets Assume No University In today's world, graduating from a university isn’t required for many jobs. The jobs can be somewhat high paying, as well. What more and more employers are looking for is someone who has a lot of experience. Ideally, when you start thinking about a job that might be the best fitting for you, think about the experiences you’ve had in your life. And then think about what you, in particular, seem to be good at that others aren’t. When people come to me and say, what type of job should I get? I always tell them that what they should be looking for is doing something that comes easily for them, but is harder for others. For example, if you are really great at cooking, why not become a chef? Cooking isn’t incredibly easy, and it's becoming even more valuable on a regular basis. Spend time thinking about yourself and what others have mentioned you seem to be particularly good at. If you are good at working with carpentry, start working in carpentry. I’ve found it’s really that easy. The mistakes are often made when younger age groups who are entering the job market start to challenge themselves too much with categories of work that don’t come naturally. If You Do Have A Bachelors Degree If you do have a degree and you are searching for ideas for jobs, maybe you should consider optimizing your job in accordance with what you have a degree in. If you are lacking experience, you can use that degree to your advantage. In particular, using it as a sort of bargaining chip during the interview process to increase your odds of being hired. For example, let's say you went to school for journalism, you could easily get a job as a copy editor. You can apply your journalism major to this job function quite easily. And it may look good for you to have this degree while others may not. Lets Think About Jobs Are Suitable For 20 Year Olds I’m going to go ahead and assume no degree from a University. Primarily I’m going to do this so that we can challenge this list to be one that even if you do have a degree, will still be beneficial. I’d say the jobs below then make it optional to have a diploma or not. When thinking about these roles it’s still imperative that you navigate your way through analyzing whether or not it will be a good fit for you. You need to spend the time thinking through your career path as well, making sure that this experience you are trying to garnish is going to lead to something greater. If you don’t have that plan mapped out, then finding temporary work is absolutely okay. But you need to be taking the time to think through what your plan is with regard to your career and at the very least, set some goals for yourself. 35 Best Jobs For 20 Year Olds Gardener Copy Editor Office Assistant Executive Assistant Copy Writer Content Writer Social Media Manager Marketing Associate Media Planner Bartender Store Sales Associate HVAC Worker Construction Worker Road Maintance Worker City Maintance Worker Fire Department Volunteer Dental Hygienist Financial Planner Financial Analyst Hair Stylist Tattoo Artist Makeup Artist Hostess or Server Medical Assistant Nutritionist Personal Trainer Customer Support Specialist Online Support Specialist Pharmacist Therapist Massage Therapist Teachers Aid Elementary School Teacher Regional Manager Retail Manager Delivery Driver Postal Service Worker These are just some of the job functions that are obtainable to a 20-year-old. If you are looking for more inspiration as it relates to potential jobs that you could have, start thinking about the categories of work you’d like to be in. In this list, I covered a large selection from construction to the arts. Think about what line of work you’d like to be in first and then it will become easier to do research regarding what types of entry-level positions are available within them. As with any of these lines of work, there is always the potential to intern as well. Internships will provide you an opportunity to learn about a new line of work and develop a relationship with the employees who are already apart of the company. Often times interns are hired for open positions when they’re high performers.

Should You Join The Increasing Number Of Graduates Turning To Self-Employment

Should You Join The Increasing Number Of Graduates Turning To Self-Employment There is a growing number of graduates turning to self-employment after completing their degrees, with 4.8% of 2010/2011 leavers choosing to go it alone, which is 3% higher than in 2007. Self-employment:  a viable career alternative for graduates? This increase in self-employment has taken place despite graduate vacancies being at a five-year high, with 17,217 openings available in firms surveyed in a recent High Fliers Research study. However, it has also been found that there are 46 applicants for every post and over 20,000 university leavers remain unemployed for six months, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency. With fierce competition for graduate roles, possible periods of unemployment and self-employment success stories, including Nick DAloisio and Mark Zuckerberg, it is little wonder that a growing number of study leavers are choosing to take action and craft out their own employment opportunities rather than joining the masses applying to graduates vacancies. [ALSO READ:  Millionaires Under 30 Who Aren’t Named Zuckerberg or Bieber] Setting up for success Many universities encourage their students to adopt an entrepreneurial attitude to broaden their career opportunities. By making the most of the opportunities that your university has made available, you can build your enterprising skills and widen your experience ready for the future. Business learning is now often integrated into the curriculum of many degrees, with project management, budget planning and networking being amongst the skills that students have the chance to develop in an educational environment centring on vision, flair and opportunity. A number of institutions also run business competitions and have enterprise societies for students. With entrepreneurship now being so heavily embedded in university education and the student lifestyle, it provides a greater opportunity to become equipped with the skills and expertise needed to go it alone once you leave university. Support for the self-employed Plenty of government encouragement and support has also been made available for new businesses set up by graduates or other professionals, as they can help to generate economic growth and job openings, which in turn can help the UK to make a stronger recovery from the recession. In the 2013 budget George Osborne revealed that he had plans to further invest in start-ups and small businesses in order to boost enterprise and reignite growth through innovation, with tax relief for investors, the Start-Up Loans Scheme and the Small Business Research Initiative. There is also further support available for self-employed graduates from the Princes Youth Business Trust, Business Gateway and SIE, which have been set up exclusively to support and nurture entrepreneurial talent. Meanwhile, a large number of businesses and agencies in the UK are designed to provide solutions to those new to contracting  or wanting to set up their own business, offering support on a multitude of different areas, ranging from finances and legal considerations to branding and logos. With such varied support both inside and outside of university available to graduates heading into self-employment, it is currently a good time to choose to freelance, contract or set up your own business. The increasing number of graduates turning to self-employment showcases a confidence amongst other study leavers in their ability to start up alone at a time where innovation is encouraged and needed. So, will you be joining your peers by making the most of this current opportunity and turning to self-employment? photo credit: Daquella manera via photopin cc 13

4 Ways To improve Your Chances Of Getting A Promotion CareerMetis.com

4 Ways To improve Your Chances Of Getting A Promotion â€" CareerMetis.com Some of us have aspirations of moving up the career ladder, where others are happy and content with being where they are.If you’re one of those people who’d like to move up, here are some ways to improve your chances of getting a promotion.1) Become IndispensableevalevalAs a company, the larger they become, the easier it can be to forget about the value of certain staff members.No matter how big your company gets, you want to remain a valued member of staff, and you also want to make yourself indispensable. This means that you are someone that your company will never want to lose. There are a few ways to do this.Offer to take on some more work when the company is thinking about recruiting. In small businesses, particularly, full-cycle recruiting is one they may look at.What is full-cycle recruiting? Well, it’s someone who focuses their full attention on finding someone perfect for the job. Instead of them doing that, you can step in when that opportunity arises to help out.2) B uild Your Relationship With The ManagerWhen you want that promotion, your manager is likely to have some influence over it.Building your relationship with the manager can go two ways, it can be tough, or it can be fairly easy. It’s very much down to how professional you are but finding topics that you can share a common interest with them.Some promotions may include the input of other staff members higher up and so it’s a good idea to become familiar with those individuals too.evalYou want to make yourself known to the company but the main person to get friendly with your manager.Image Source â€" Pexels.com3) Be A Role Model And Inspire OthersAs a key member of staff, you can improve your popularity and presence as a staff member by being a role modeland inspiring others within the organization.This is going to make you look very impressive to your bosses if you can encourage and drive your colleagues to have the same mindset and passion that you have for your job.Give advice an d help teach other colleagues who may be needing help and that you have knowledge of what they’re struggling with.4) Pitch Your Argument When The Time ComesevalTime your opportunities wisely. Whether it’s at the start of a financial year or at your annual review, pick your moment and prepare.You want to have a pitchfor your argument on why you deserve to be considered for a promotion. List everything you’ve done and contributed to the company.Touch on places where your job may have increased in workload and mention any financial income that you’ve managed to bring to the table for the company. The more reasons you can give, the better your chances.Getting a promotion can be difficult and challenging, but if you work hard, impress your colleagues and be a role model to others, you definitely stand a chance.Stand up for your hard work and pitch well.

Meet a very happy garbage man - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Meet a very happy garbage man - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog I sometimes hear this objection, when I give talks about happiness at work: Being happy at work is nice, but clearly not everyone can love their job. What about garbage men, for example? I hope this video can help fight that myth. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related

When Writing a Resume About How Far Back Do You Go With Work History

When Writing a Resume About How Far Back Do You Go With Work HistoryThe first question to ask when writing a resume is, 'Where do I start?' This is a very difficult question to answer and one of the major mistakes that people make is trying to cram too much information into a resume. Unfortunately, this often leads to errors and some of these errors can affect your ability to get hired. It is not just a good idea to avoid cramming all of your past work history onto a resume, but it is also important to know where you start with work history.In order to write a resume that is well-written and will stand out, it is important to know how long you should start your work history with your current employer. Many people believe that they need to start their work history at a very young age in order to put their strongest foot forward. This is simply not true.Most companies, including most large corporations, do not hire candidates who have worked for them for more than seven years. In fact, some companies are willing to consider someone who has worked for them for as little as five years! The question to ask when writing a resume about a candidate's work history is how far back do you go with work history.If you are currently working for a company, you might consider asking a professional resume writer about where the company started and what it was doing six months ago. In fact, some hiring managers will actually tell you that they would be willing to consider anyone who has worked for them within the last six months, as long as they are within five years of employment. This is simply because there are so many people who do not keep a good track record with certain employers who will take advantage of this guideline.A smart resume writer will start with a person's work history on the first day of employment and continue to add more years onto it throughout the rest of the process. This is a smart approach to take because it shows the company that you will be able to grow and mature with the organization and will be able to handle the day-to-day tasks involved with the job. If a company does not start on the first day of employment, they will generally move the date forward to the next year. The company wants to see that a candidate is not only going to fit into the job responsibilities, but also that they can succeed at those responsibilities.Many people incorrectly assume that they should always start their work history from the beginning. This is a mistake because there are times when a person has experienced a temporary period of unemployment and the date of their first day of employment may be very far in the past. In fact, it is more likely that they have worked for the company for less than six months and are still employed. Some jobs only require people to have worked at least one year at a company before they qualify for benefits.In order to get the best results when writing a resume about how far back do you go with work history, a per son should use a professional resume writer to write their resume. A good resume writer will make sure that the company has the information they need to ensure that they hire a candidate who is a fit for the job. In order to be hired, the person must have a strong case for the position that they want.There are several things to consider when writing a resume about how far back do you go with work history. This is something that is crucial to do when looking for a new job.